Fence crasher: Long history with federal courts

Dustin Flying, the man who pleaded guilty last week to five charges in the events that involved a vehicle plowing through the fence of the tennis court by Havre High School and walking into the wrong house covered in blood, is a recent parolee from federal prison and has a history of violations.

Flying got out of federal prison on supervised release, the equivalent of probation, at the beginning of last month and was only out for a few weeks before breaking the law again.

His record goes back at least six years.

In 2010, Flying pleaded guilty to domestic assault-habitual offender

that resulted in a 63-month prison sentence, followed by three years of supervised release. The crime he admitted to was assaulting his wife, the type of harm the U.S. District court file dubbs "substantial bodily injury."

Flying was out on supervised release by August 2015. By the next month, he was charged with violating three conditions of his parole release.

He was charged with getting drunk and entered a bar. The police report says Flying was found passed out in a ditch on U.S. Highway 87 Sep. 18. He was transported by ambulance to the hospital, where a breath test revealed a blood alcohol concentration of .259.

Flying failed to report for substance abuse testing Sep. 16, 20 and 21.

On Sep. 9 Flying was charged with breaking the law by stealing beer from the Town Pump.

Flying was also charged with being involved in a fight at the Northern Winz Casino II Sep. 26

According to U.S. District court files, guards at the casino told officers Flying was drunk when he arrived at the casino and was "trying to get customers to fight with him." He was arrested for disorderly conduct.

The file says Flying cussed and kicked at the officers while being put in the patrol car. Once in, he repeatedly kicked the door. He was pepper-sprayed after refusing to obey the officer's warnings to stop kicking the door. Flying was pepper-sprayed a second time when he began kicking the door again.

Once at the jail, the file says, Flying cussed and "continued to try and intimidate officers by calling them derogative names." He also spit on an officer, which earned him an assault and battery charge.

Flying served four months in federal prison and was released early last month before driving through the tennis court fence and illegally entering a person's home last week, landing him in the Hill County Detention Center.

Flying pleaded guilty to resisting arrest, obstructing a peace officer, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass to vehicle and criminal trespass to property.

Although he has received a six-month jail sentence for the misdemeanor crimes, Havre City Court Judge Virginia Seigel said six months should be enough time for the federal court to "pick him up" and put him back in the federal prison.

"If he can't stay law-abiding while he's in our community, we'll keep him where he and our community are safe until the feds figure it out," Seigel said.